Interdisciplinary training in Complementary studies

As a Bachelor's or Master's student at the Professional School, you can take up to three complementary modules during the course of your studies, depending on your degree programme. In line with the Leuphana continuing education model, these form an integral part of our study programmes and live the idea of humanism, which is the guiding principle of Leuphana's professional education and personal development.

In the complementary modules C1 (Personal and Social Competence) and C2 (Organisational Competence), for example, you will focus on the following areas:

• Methodological and social skills
• Fundamentals of communication
• Conflict management
• project management
• Scientific work
• Time and self-management

The third complementary module C3 Society and Responsibility focuses on the level of social competence and is offered by the Professional School across all degree programmes. You attend this module together with students from other study programmes and thus benefit from their respective experiences in very different professional and disciplinary contexts. The focus is on the exchange and opportunity for a change of perspective between you and your fellow students. Topics include, for example

• leadership
• change
• organisational ethics
• diversity

The aim of this module is to open up a space for experience and reflection with reference to another of Leuphana's guiding principles, action orientation, and thus to give you the opportunity to develop ‘a toolbox full of solution ideas’ through discussion and debate with students from other sectors and disciplines, which you would not have been able to achieve through discussion with students from your own discipline alone. Only through cross-functional, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral cooperation can we solve the really difficult, complex so-called ‘wicked problems’ of today and thus remain capable of acting.

Due to the shorter duration of the certificate programmes , there are no interdisciplinary modules in the course of study. However, if certificate students are interested, they can take part in the interdisciplinary modules of the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes if there is free capacity. Please contact the coordinators listed below.

In the Bachelor C3, students on the Bachelor programmes spend a week discussing topics such as ethics and values, gender & diversity and social change across all study programmes. Transdisciplinarity and the exchange between the various academic disciplines form a core element of our continuing education model. Educational leave can be applied for during the C3 week.

The innovative ‘portfolio’ examination was developed to support the transfer of practical experience and to encourage self-reflection. In this learning process documentation, you analyse your personal development and role in a case or project from your own work context on one of the three topics of ethics and values, gender and diversity and social change.

In the C3 Master's programme, students deal with current social issues and questions of responsibility. C3 promotes the further development of social skills in the areas ofLeadership & Management, Transformation & Change and Ethics & Values.

A core element is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary exchange - between students, lecturers and experts from research, business and society. Instead of imparting purely specialised knowledge, C3 prepares participants to deal with complex social challenges, change perspectives, take responsibility and develop personally.